Don Puckett's Story
                       "Always enjoy the journey, we never know where the decisions we make will take us."  

   My real love for Photography began July 19, 1970 when I was handed a Camera at a Yearbook Workshop
held at Furman University in Greenville SC. I fell in love with with photography at that workshop and the journey
began.  I still have the certificate to document the start of what has been a long successful career as a professional Photographer.  I have had a camera in his hands since that time, photographing and adding to my collection of Prints,
many that I have turned into Art Prints for my Gallery Collection.  I refined my shooting skill photographing both for
the yearbook and as a free lance Photographer for the local paper. It was always a nice treat to see my work in print.  

   My Professional Career has taken me from my First studio in Calhoun GA and the opening of a second in Cartersville
GA to the position of Photographic manager at CPD Corporation, a large Photography firm in Chicago, IL., managing
over 50 Professional Photographers. During my time in Chicago I receive my Pilots license and later opened Camelot
Portraits and C&P Photo Lab in 1982 in Alsip IL with a partner John Clark. In 1983 I moved Camelot Portraits to
Mobile AL and built it into a National Photography Company with sales over 1 million dollars per year.  

   After the hustle and stress of corporate fast paced volume photography from Family Portraits to Glamour, it is nice
to be able to photograph one family per sunrise or sunset on our Beautiful Gulf Coast Beaches or Georgia Montainside and indeed produce an Art Piece or Masterpiece that each Family will enjoy for year to come.  

   Photography has changed a lot in 35 years, the medium has changed but the basics are still the same.  We
photograph subjects bathe in light, whether natural or artificial,  and turn the results it into works of art for
others to enjoy and capture moments in time.  

   The profession has changed a lot in 35 years, Digital Camera have taken a lot of the skill out of photography,
the cameras make even an amatuer look good under idea conditions.  I have a good set of Pans but that doesn't
mean I am a Panni Pete or can cook.  It is the times that the elements do not cooperate and things break or something goes wrong that the true profession still get the shot and the part time professional or amatuer is left scratching their head on
the shot that could have been.  This is my deepest concern, that we have lost the skill of taking good Portraits
without the help of Automatic cameras and Photoshop.  Not that Photoshop is not great, it really makes me look
good sometimes, in case things do not always go as planned.  

   It is the skill and training to avoid problems by being prepared that I believe sets the True Professional apart from
the point and shoot photographers that are hanging out their shingles and calling themselves Professionals today.  If
you want a Masterpiece that you will be proud to hang in your home and show off to your friends please give me
a call.  I will work with you to capture the setting and create your Masterpiece, whether a Standard Portrait,
Light or Heavy Oil, or Watercolor.

Camelot Artistic Portraits is your Full Service Photography Specialist.  We specialize in Wall Portraits.
Whether Beach, Mountain or Studio Portrait, Watercolor, Heavy or Light Oil our staff will use its professional expertise to see that you get the best, finished Portraits available.  This is our guarantee to you.

                               "Elegant Portraits with a Artistic Flare"


                                                                                                                                     Don Puckett